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Ingmar Bergman has been diligent in filmmaking all his life, and at the age of 89, he left behind 48 directorial works. He poured his unconscious into the film world, leaving behind many masterpieces.
Bergman, 1990s
Ang Lee said that the first art film he watched in his life was Bergman's "The Virgin Spring". He watched it twice in a row, as if his virginity was taken away by the director . He didn't quite understand it, but was shocked .
Bergman's cinematic world is filled with a deep fear that ties into Bergman's childhood experiences .
He has a priest father, strict and controlling, he was locked in a closet because of bedwetting as a child; Bergman's mother came from an upper-class intellectual family, beautiful but died young.
Childhood experience has left a lifetime shadow on Bergman , and it has also become one of his inspirations. Today, I will talk about two important elements in Bergman's films .
Ingmar Bergman's dream world
The ambiguity of dreams and reality
Bergman says that no other artistic medium can portray the specific qualities of dreams quite like film .
Dreams and nightmares do not only exist in the unconscious. When dreams enter reality and begin to interfere with reality, the ambiguity about reality and dreams begins to emerge. This is the soil in which Bergman's films inhabit.
The classic game with death in "The Seventh Seal"
As a director who shoots dreams, he has an occupational disease - staying awake in a deep sleep at the same time. Often inspired by his own dreams and nightmares, he is a lucid dreamer.
The most shocking dream world in Bergman's film career is "Wild Strawberry" . This 1957 film won the Berlin Golden Bear Award and is also one of Bergman's representative works. A fear of death, repentance and forgiveness of life.
The protagonist of the story is Isaac, an aging medical professor who is about to go to his alma mater to receive an honorary degree. "Wild Strawberry" is a journey of the body and a journey of the soul .
There are four dreams in the film, each with metaphors and references. The first dream contains some of the most famous unconscious scenes in film history .
clock without hands
Weird faces and death
Death turns into a pool of water, leaving only clothes
In "Fanny and Alexander," the last film Bergman planned to make, the film ends with the grandmother quoting Strindberg's preface to the book "The Play of a Dream."
anything can happen
everything is possible
Time and space no longer exist
on a fragile reality
with this elegant note
Let the imagination wrap around and weave new patterns
- "The Drama of a Dream"
The dream in Bergman's films is not only Bergman's own artistic temperament, but also a truth about the film itself- dream is the natural state of the film.
Movies can uniquely change how audiences perceive time and space. In the dream state, time and space will cease to exist.
2. Emotional Abundance and Sexual Anxiety
Bergman has five wives, and in addition to the officially married women, he also maintains cohabitation relationships with his film muses.
Among them, there are three more famous ones, Harriet Anderson, Bibi Anderson, and Liv Uman.
Talk about Liv Ullman , Bergman has always admired her talent, Liv has been nominated for two best actress Oscars for "The Great Immigrant" and "Face to Face."
Uman and Bergman lived together for 5 years and had a daughter. Later, Liv turned from an actor to a director, and Bergman also worked as her screenwriter.
Uman and Bergman
In 1965, Bergman was preparing for his new film "Masquerade" . For the first time , Bergman saw a photo of an actress who looked very similar to his former queen, bebby anderson, so he Call the actress to audition.
This is Liv Uman, the famous Bergman goddess in the future, when she and Bergman were 26 years apart .
In the summer of 1965, the filming of "Masquerade" began. On the filming site of Faroe Island, Bibi Anderson was also an actress in this film. As someone who has been with Bergman for more than ten years, she knew Bergman well. As a person, she reminded Uman more than once, " You have to be careful of this man ".
Bibi Anderson and Liv Ullman in "Masquerade"
But Uman didn't listen to the advice at all, she couldn't refuse, and she didn't want to refuse the man behind the camera.
I used to stare at a photo of the three of them on the Faroe Island set back then.
In the photo, Bibby is talking to Bergman, and then Uman, in the center, smiles and listens, looking at Bergman, who bows his head to the two women.
I don't know what Bergman was thinking, but there seemed to be a shy boyish look on his face .
Bergman had already started his fourth marriage at the time, and the child he had with his fourth wife was just three years old; Uman, too, was a married woman.
"Masquerade" work photo
After the filming, Bergman chased all the way from Faroe Island to Norway , and found Uman's friends and told them that "Uman should be with me". It is said that with the help of Uman's friends, Bergman succeeded. brought Uman back to the Faroe Islands.
Digression, Faroe Island can be said to be Bergman's paradise. (*Faro Island is located in the Baltic Sea and is the second largest island in Gotland Province, with an area of 11 kilometers and a population of less than 600, which can be described as sparsely populated) Tarkovsky also took his final pictures on this island. A movie "Sacrifice", so Faroe Island has now become a place that fans often go to worship. Both great gods wrote immortal chapters on this island.
Bergman brought Uman back to Faroe Island and really wanted to live with him. He built a house on the island of Faroe, and imagined that he could hold Uman's hand on this island and grow old together.
Bergman's love letter to Uman
However, after a man has spent his initial mad love for a woman, he will gradually reveal his true nature . Bergman's tragic childhood has cast a deep shadow on his life, and this shadow has become a habitual way of Bergman's treatment of women - endless demands , in other words, selfishness .
The second year the two lived together on Faroe Island, Bergman built a high stone wall to cover his house, not wanting those who landed on the island to see his residence and not want to be disturbed. Even Liv Uman, it is best to disappear immediately when he is working, and when the work is over, when Bergman needs the warmth of a woman, she will appear again immediately.
Uman herself said that during those days, she felt very lonely and often cried alone. She felt that this man was so selfish and completely regarded himself as a tool .
Uman recalls Bergman's documentary "Liv and Ingmar"
Fortunately, Uman and Bergman's daughter was born this year , which relieved Uman's loneliness to a certain extent and increased her sense of security, but Bergman's jealousy and selfishness still did not subside, and even Beat her often .
Bergman was beaten by his father a lot as a child, so this childhood experience often makes a person very violent later on, because he feels that violence can solve problems .
This home on Faroe Island left too much sadness for Uman. Uman often fought with Bergman here, and then entered a long cold war. Both sides tortured each other with silence.
No wonder Bergman is often so calm when describing family relationships and marital relationships. It turns out that in his real life, he often plays such passages. It turns out that the master is always using his true feelings to experience the mutual torture in family relationships.
As things like this continued, Uman wanted to leave the man, and Bergman himself knew very well, so when he realized that Uman was leaving, he tried every means to start torturing the woman.
Torture with what? torture her with filming.
In the winter of 1968, the island of Faroe was bitterly cold, and the film "Shame" started filming on the island of Faroe. There is a scene in which Max von Sydow (Bergman's royal actor) is going to lie in a small boat with the thinly dressed Uman for a long time drifting on the sea.
"Shame" stills
It was really cold that day, and Bergman wrapped himself up tightly. He ordered the boat to float on the sea and not to dock . Even during the filming interval, the two actors were not allowed to go ashore. In fact, it was to torture Uman.
Uman's hatred reached its peak that day. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Uman to leave Bergman, the dark angel , with his daughter .
But what's interesting is that neither of them pointed it out or opened up about the end. They just signed a temporary armistice agreement for this mutually tormenting relationship, and the war is far from over.
At that time, Bergman was already a world-renowned top director, and Furman became famous because of Bergman's films. Her breakup with Bergman became a big news story for the media. When Umanman flew back to Sweden, her friends and colleagues were already waiting at the airport, including Harriet Anderson and Bibby Anderson.
Well, now the three women who have been loved and hurt by Bergman can finally drink, chat and scold men together.
In 1971, when the film "Shouting and Whispering" started, Liv Ullman and Harriet Anderson collaborated with Bergman again. They had to admire the master .
Shout and Whisper is another one of my favorites, and during filming, Bergman once again had sex with actresses (not Uman and Harriet).
One night, two of Bergman's former women were drunk, and Uman said, I have to go to him to reason, how dare he do such a thing in front of us and harm people.
Drunk, Uman knocked on Bergman's door, and it was said that Bergman broke through the window and fled . I often imagine how the Great God panicked and made mistakes that night .
Bergman once said a very nice sentence to Uman, he said, " You are my Stradivari ". (Antonioni Stradivari, the greatest violin maker to date, can now be auctioned for sky-high prices for one of his violins, making him an aristocrat among violins. The red violin in "The Red Violin" is actually A Stradivarius.)
So "Cries and Whispers", "Face to Face", "Marriage Life" and "Autumn Sonata" are all immortal pieces of Bergman's Stradivarius. This Stradivari is Liv Uman .
To a certain extent, Uman is lucky, because Bergman is moving towards an increasingly old life stage, people's anger is gradually fading, and people's love is gradually rising.
Uman later went to Hollywood to develop, took a few films, and everyone was eager for her to be the next Greta Garbo. But she didn't expect that two film studios went bankrupt because of her, so she moved to Broadway.
When her first Broadway play "A Doll's House" was staged, she didn't expect Bergman, who had never liked flying, to come to the United States to help out.
Uman later began to go the way of director, Bergman became his screenwriter, Bergman has always admired her talent, Bergman said, she eased my inner struggle, in her story, I feel I am The childhood resentment towards his parents gradually dissipated .
In the early morning of July 29, 2007, Uman woke up in Norway. She suddenly felt that something might happen to Bergman, so she immediately rented a plane and flew to Gotland, Sweden, and then took a ferry across. Channel between Gotland and Faroe Islands.
She had crossed this strait 42 years ago. In that year, she did not expect that she would meet such a man who would change her life.
Today, she crossed the strait again to see this man for the last time.
August 18, 2007 was Bergman's funeral. In the white cathedral of Faro, Uman and Bibi Anderson came to see him off.
I think Bergman was lucky that in the final stages of his life, the women he had hurt came to see him off, showing that there was still something lovely about this man .
Uman said that in 1966, the day Bergman's mother left, Bergman hugged her, "Today my mother died, and I have no relatives." She said that Bergman was completely a child when she said this, which sparked a powerful maternal love in her heart.
Bergman is a god-like director . He has dedicated the classics among the classics to the world, but his inner world is just like what Uman said, a child who has not grown up, and who has experienced a tragic childhood. black angel .
I think the human world is often divided by duality. In Bergman's heart, good and evil, happiness and misery may often transform into each other in an instant.
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